Expressive Therapies Australia - Expressive Therapies

This highly experiential course offers training in emotionally expressive methods and Inner-Life Skills that promote emotional integration, self-awareness and self-esteem in children and adolescents. Expressive Therapies (ET) provides substantial long-term benefits such as an increase in resilience, self-motivation, increased attention span, less aggressive behaviour and a better sense of self. The wide range of activities ensures that both clients and counsellors have increased motivation to participate. The course provides a large number of new skills that enhance the creativity of counsellors, and provide a means of making deep contact with clients. Imagine you and your clients enjoying the counselling process, quickly forming empathic bonds, and working through challenges with ease. Five workshops of three days each.

Sandplay Therapy is a hands-on, expressive counselling and psychotherapy modality that has been in use for over seventy years. Sandplay forms a bridge between verbal therapy and the expressive therapies, combining elements of each. Sandplay allows the deeper aspects of the psyche to be worked with naturally and in safety, and is highly effective in reducing the emotional causes behind difficult behaviours. With an extensive research and literature base, Sandplay is a powerful therapeutic method for use by established professionals. It has been used with children, adolescents and adults, in schools, hospitals, welfare agencies and private therapy practices. This is the most extensive training in Sandplay therapy available in Australia. Fifteen days over four workshops.

Certificate in Expressive Therapies with Adults

Creative & Expressive Arts for Growth & Wellbeing

16 days, 106 hours, 5 workshops, 3 online sessions, spread over 6 months

Redcliffe (Moreton Bay) - 2024 intake starts 29 February

with Mark Pearson and Helen Wilson

This in-person and online experiential course introduces the theories, principles, methods and evidence base for applying expressive therapies in counselling with adult clients. Using an integrative and pluralistic approach, the course weaves together creative arts therapies, person-centred therapy, emotion-focused and somatic therapies. The course is founded on transpersonal perspectives, in addition to trauma-informed sensitivity that creates a highly practical therapeutic approach, based on evidence from research and therapy room outcomes. The course combines theory, immersive experience, skills development, and review of the ET evidence base.

Theoretical foundations include Rogers' Person-centred Therapy, Transpersonal theory developed by Grof and others, Jung's Analytic Psychology, Greenberg's Emotion-focused Therapy, bio-energetics and somatic focusing, implemented through the practical creative arts activities developed by Mark and Helen over the last 35 years.

TRAINING MODULES These must be completed in the order 1 to 5